Fire Monster

Chapter 125 The Secret of the Statue
At that moment, Zhao Guanshan held the imperial oil lamp and walked along the bluestone path. After walking about a few hundred meters, a building ruin appeared at the end of the bluestone path.

Or to be more precise, it is a part of the ruins of a building. The gray fog is confined here and cannot enter. There is a circular space of about two hundred square meters.

Five circular stone platforms with a diameter of one meter are placed around the perimeter, forming a circle.

The shape of the stone platform is very similar to a Go piece.

However, among these five stone platforms, one was cracked into two halves, and another was covered with cracks, leaving only three intact.

Zhao Guanshan studied it for a while but couldn't get the point.

There is no mechanism and nothing magical.

So he simply jumped up, but the moment he stood up straight, the imperial oil lamp in his hand suddenly activated automatically, and a brilliant light suddenly lit up, almost blinding his eyes.

When he got used to the light, he suddenly discovered that the small flame in the imperial oil lamp had transformed into a huge fireball that was floating in front of him. In the center of the fireball, a life-size statue of a female immortal was looming and was looking at him intently.

Although the statue of the female immortal was extremely beautiful, the scene still made his hair stand on end and his scalp tingle.

So what does this mean?
Zhao Guanshan was stunned for a moment and tried to reach out to touch the fireball, but it was not hot. It was as if the fireball did not exist, an illusory thing.

He went deeper until his hand touched the statue.

It turned out that the statue was actually real.

Can be touched.

It feels very smooth, like some kind of warm jade.

He just tried to pull it.

The next second, the fireball suddenly disappeared, his hands sank, and the statue was held in his arms.

Too proactive!
For a moment, all the hairs on Zhao Guanshan's body stood up, and he almost thought he was holding a real, living person.

But unfortunately, this was just an illusion. The next second, the statue suddenly became extremely heavy and pressed him directly on the stone platform.

The kind where you can't move or break free.

With great surprise, Zhao Guanshan suddenly woke up.

He was still in the room and everything was normal.

Even his imperial seal oil lamp didn't change at all, but this was too weird.

Zhao Guanshan couldn't help but look at Liu Yuwei. He didn't know what had happened and why she had undergone such a change. Could it be that she was the reincarnation of that female immortal?

That's ridiculous.

Shaking his head vigorously, Zhao Guanshan calmed himself down, and then visualized the Lihuo Dao Talisman again.

But this time, he entered his normal world of visualization.

The Lihuo Dao Talisman still turned into a scorching sun, hanging high in the sky. Further away were dim rune stars, just as it was before, with no changes.

No, how could there be no changes!

Zhao Guanshan suddenly looked up at the Lihuo Dao Talisman. In the sun-like light, he clearly saw the statue of the female immortal.

And the moment he stared at the Lihuo Dao Fu, he once again entered the mysterious building ruins, but he was still in the state of being pinned down and unable to move but not crushed to death.

At this moment, Zhao Guanshan looked at the statue so close to him and seemed to have some understanding.

The ruins of the building, the five chess-piece-like stone platforms, the life-size statues, the Lihuo Daoist Talisman, the visualized world, all of these seemed to be strung together by a thread, hinting at some truth, and also seemed to be foreshadowing something.

At that moment, Zhao Guanshan calmed his mind and gazed calmly at the statue that was as tall as himself.

This lifelike statue looks just like a real person, with a small flame burning between its eyebrows.

Mysterious, beautiful, and transcendent, as if it could wake up at any moment.

No, why does it look familiar?

At a certain moment, Zhao Guanshan was surprised to find that the small flame began to overlap with Liu Yuwei's innate fire seal between her eyebrows.

Then, the statue that was supposed to be the female immortal suddenly turned into the appearance of Liu Yuwei.

"what!"

Zhao Guanshan was slightly surprised, but he had already expected it.

But even so, he returned to the room the next second.

It’s true. I’m speechless.

His mood has hardly changed this time!

Could it be that some conditions have been met?

"Also, the reason why the statue turned into Liu Yuwei was probably not a coincidence. And the five stone platforms there were prepared for five people? Liu Yuwei was just the first person who met the requirements, so she became the statue?"

"It's a pity that we can't wake her up and ask her at this moment."

With some guesses in mind, Zhao Guanshan continued to enter the gray fog world through the visualization world.

This time, there was indeed no scene of being crushed by the statue.

He stood on the bluestone path again and had to walk a few hundred meters with the imperial oil lamp before he could enter the ruins of the building.

And then it was indeed different, because on one of the stone platforms stood a familiar statue of a god.

That’s right, that’s Liu Yuwei.

He was wearing armor, holding a heavy shield and a broadsword, carrying a spear on his back and a longbow on his waist. He looked so heroic.

Then, at the feet of the statue, an extremely special symbol appeared.

It’s the Aoki Dao Fu!
This Qingmu Dao Talisman is slowly flowing and is taking effect. So?
Zhao Guanshan seemed to understand something.

So he immediately jumped onto an intact stone platform and repeated the previous steps.

As expected, the ending was that he was crushed by the statue of the female fairy.

But this time, Zhao Guanshan deliberately thought of himself as the statue.

So after just a few seconds, the statue turned into his appearance.

What he was stepping on was the Lihuo Dao Talisman.

I understand. I totally understand!
It's like some kind of enthronement!

The moment he understood, the situation where the statue was pressing on him disappeared immediately.

He seemed to have completely transformed into the statue, and a strange, huge, and weird vision replaced his own vision.

At this moment, Zhao Guanshan was in a trance, as if he had even returned to Linjiang Prefecture. He saw the Taoist temple and the students of liberal arts, martial arts, and Taoism. He saw them studying and practicing. He also saw some devout students kneeling down to worship him.

He even seemed to be able to hear their prayers and requests.

Then his eyes were able to look further away. He saw the speeding Wuling train, the alley where he lived, and even Liu Erya who was secretly wiping away tears.

Looking further, he saw the Taoist Palace and the factory directly under the Demon Suppression Bureau, where one after another imperially-sealed chariots were being assembled and produced.

Unable to help himself, Zhao Guanshan's gaze lingered here for a long time, staring at every detail, peeping eagerly, until a dizziness came over him, and he was forced to exit the statue state, and his consciousness returned to the room, and he could no longer hold on and fell asleep.

When Zhao Guanshan woke up again, he was the only one in the room. His armor had been removed and he was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

"Grass!"

After being stunned for a moment, he stood up, thought for a moment, and then visualized the Lihuo Dao Talisman again, entered the visualization world, and then used the Lihuo Dao Talisman to jump into the ruins of the building again.

Here, the statue of Liu Yuwei is still there, just as it was before.

Next to it, there is also the statue of Zhao Guanshan's god of nothingness.

He had roughly understood it at this point, so without saying a word he stepped forward and entered the statue mode again.

The next second, the entire Linjiang Prefecture and even the huge Imperial Seal Great Wall were in sight.

Even when his eyes passed the Imperial Seal Great Wall, he could even see the small pioneer town where the second pioneer camp was located.

He could even see clearly the barracks they were occupying at the moment and the two rail vehicles at the entrance of the barracks. Oh, he also saw Liu Yuwei, but Liu Yuwei seemed to sense it immediately and looked up.

Wow, I love this magical power!

However, Zhao Guanshan did not come here to peek. He quickly raised his gaze and looked around. As Liu Yuwei had expected, there were now sixty-two demon mother nests in the wasteland surrounding the entire town.

All kinds of evil demons are hatching madly inside.

Raising his sight again, Zhao Guanshan saw a level three imperially-sealed chariot a few dozen miles away. It seemed to have broken down and was trapped there, unable to move.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Guanshan's sight continued to shift, and in a wider range, he saw that the Demon Suppression Division was indeed deploying troops at the gap on the front line.

A total of twelve level three imperial seal chariots blocked the gap and set up a new demon-suppressing net.

This also means that no new evil demons will rush into this area.

However, the Demon Suppression Division did not seem to have the spare energy to clear out the area.

Because the battle situation on the front line is still in a stalemate.

"Reinforcements will arrive in two days? Damn reinforcements!"

Even though Zhao Guanshan didn't know how many battle camps the Demon Suppression Division had deployed on the front line, this visual battle line was enough to explain the problem.

As the saying goes, battle reports can deceive people, but battle lines cannot.

From the current perspective, the gap in the battle line was not a strategic mistake made by the Demon Suppression Division. It was obvious that new and more powerful demons had joined the battlefield, which led to this incident.

Now, the senior Qi-refining masters from the Taoist Palace have taken action to stop the even more powerful evil demon. This is the first line of battle.

Afterwards, the elite troops of the Demon Suppression Bureau blocked the gap and, in conjunction with the Demon Suppression Net, formed a second front line that was able to basically isolate all demons above level eight.

But more than a dozen seventh-level demons were missed and let in.

So based on this fact, it would be a blessing if the reinforcements could enter this area within five days.

After all, we cannot expect the Demon Suppression Division to maintain the second front while having the energy to clear the third front.

After making this judgment in his mind, Zhao Guanshan decisively withdrew from this strange vision of the statue and returned to reality.

"It feels like I have an extra clone. I wonder if Liu Yuwei has the same experience?"

Zhao Guanshan thought quietly. Even if he didn't enter the visualization world now, he could still have a mysterious connection with the statue he was associated with.

It's like I can borrow its power.

"Huh? No, there's something wrong with Liu Yuwei's statue."

Zhao Guanshan suddenly realized that there was a faint connection between him and the statue of Liu Yuwei.

Following this faint connection, he was able to see the statue out of thin air, but for some reason, three rune stars lit up on Liu Yuwei's statue.

It is very similar to the rune stars in Zhao Guanshan’s visualization world.

Suddenly, he had a bold idea.

(End of this chapter)